In Heyerdahl’s 1950 Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft —a lively chronicle that sold more than 50 million copies and was translated into nearly 70 languages—and his 1950 Academy Award-winning ...

Norwegian hit “Kon-Tiki,” released by TWC in the States, set sail in Germany with a splashy preem March 6 at Berlin’s Kino Intl. Pic follows the voyage of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew, who sailed ...

Kon-Tiki (2012) follows Thor Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He sets sail with a small crew to prove his theory that South America, not Asia, populated ...

On April 28, 1947, an explorer began an ambitious ocean adventure.